The Archive · 1901

The Government Examinations

have been going on here as usual for the ast month and still have some time to run before they finally finish, These have gone on the old lines, and itis almost painful as well as ludicrous to see the military candidates still posturing and shooting at a target with the bow and arrow as his forefathers have done forsomemillenniums past. Classical subjects to the exclusion of everything else are still the regime of the would-be literary graduate, and these go about the streets in groups waiting their turn to "enter the arena" and by wielding the pen prove it mightier than the sword to guide and govern the affairs of men.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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